From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268015AbUH1WMz (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Aug 2004 18:12:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266463AbUH1WMz (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Aug 2004 18:12:55 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net ([216.148.227.85]:55187 "EHLO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266362AbUH1WMu (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Aug 2004 18:12:50 -0400 Message-ID: <41310364.8070302@namesys.com> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:12:52 -0700 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Alexander G. M. Smith" CC: Will Dyson , akpm@osdl.org, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, torvalds@osdl.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: Separating Indexing and Searching (was silent semantic changes with reiser4) References: <584702172685-BeMail@cr593174-a> In-Reply-To: <584702172685-BeMail@cr593174-a> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alexander G. M. Smith wrote: > > >However, one of my (unfinished) experiments was to have magic directories that show query results as their contents. One attribute of the directory (or even its name) would be the query string. That way even old software (like "ls") could use queries! Implementing queries-as-directories might require moving some things back into the kernel, or at least into some plug-in level. > >- Alex > > > > Symlinks also. Symlinks with powerful queries in them would require a parser in the kernel. Thanks for helping me to distill my incoherent reasons for the parser being in the kernel.